Forum Post: Phony Posture of the OWS as "Underdog" of the "Corporate Media"

some facts:

during the entire first eight months of the tea party movement, the news divisions of abc, cbs and nbc did 13 stories on the tea party. so far, in the initial ten days of this ows protest movement, the same three major networks have done 33 stories on the ows protests, not including briefs and mentions. that’s a quantitative point: if we assume all other things to be equal, we can say affirmatively that the mainstream media deliberately tried to starve the tea party movement of oxygen for as long as it could while, in contrast, the mainstream media began promoting the ows protests as soon as it could.

there are many qualitative points to be made (when the mainstream media did begin to cover the tea party movement, it was from the outset with an agenda to characterize the movement as “angry” and “extreme”) but if we must further indulge this narrative about “the rightwing media” being hypocritical in it’s differing coverage of the tea party and the ows, i’d prefer we stick to quantifiable metrics like the one i produced above.

there is nothing more pathetic about the left’s phony charade at being the underdogs of the media narrative than the fact that the charade is only sustained for as long as one can pretend that the only news network in existence is fox.